rasure

See also: rasuré

English

Etymology

From Middle English rasure, from Anglo-Norman rasure, Middle French rasure, from Latin rāsūra (scraping, shaving), from the participle stem of rādere (to scrape, shave).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪʒə/

Noun

rasure (countable and uncountable, plural rasures)

  1. (now rare, law) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
  2. (now rare) Obliteration, destruction.
  3. (obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

rāsūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of rāsūrus

Old French

Etymology

From Latin rasura.

Noun

rasure oblique singular, f (oblique plural rasures, nominative singular rasure, nominative plural rasures)

  1. scrapings

Portuguese

Verb

rasure

  1. inflection of rasurar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

rasure

  1. inflection of rasurar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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